Marriage. Plus the Senate Working overtime to consider a bill that involves collecting your personal information. Our panel on the patriot act extension as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. And we begin this morning with discussions going on right now to keep five senior taliban leaders from returning to the fight. The Obama Administration released the socalled taliban five from gitmo last year. In exchange for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Bergdahl now faces desertion charges, and the u. S. And qatar have agreed the taliban five would not travel with restrictions but those restrictions expire tomorrow. A deal is now reportedly in the works to extend the restriction for another six months. Joining me right now in an exclusive interview, the former Prime Minister of qatar, sheikh hamed. Thank you so much for joining us. What is your stance . The u. S. Nearing this deal with qatar. Whats your sense of these five former prisoners now still in qatar and whether or not they will leave and
Embargoed in the parl wants of washington, but the thing that you need to look at, the metadata collection, the most controversial one from Edward Snowden, that came through the course of last year. What will he do about it . We know that his own administration came back with they hold the data itself. But not going forward. We know its not enough for many advocates, many civil libertarians in this country, and where will the president go on that . Where will he go with the socalled National Security letters issued by the fbi to the Communications Companies requesting information without any sort of judicial review . Will there be constraints on that as well . And back to the metadata collection, will there be review for when they two to the secret court, the court that hears Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community. Their request for intelligence warrants the tools that they need to fight terrorism and Law Enforcement. The advocate on that, the privacy advocate that speaks up for
Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peaceful purposes. You think iranians are trying to hold a bomb before we get involved . Made theave not determination to go to that step. Aey have approached this from threshold capability. For the iranians the decision is a political one. They certainly have the expertise if they so chose. Would it take them if they made that decision . Them a that depends on a lot of factors and closed sessions. Gentlemen, we appreciate your testimony, your service. I joined a number of colleagues who have asked
So we begin tonight with a new ruling on the nsa spying controversy. A federal judge ruled at the time legal for the National Security agency to collect socalled metadata from persons cell phone. A week ago another judge ruled it basically violated are rights. John terrett could you tell us . Half us think its a good idea because it keeps us safe, the other half thinks its terrible. And now members of the judiciary. Not just any members of the judiciary, two federal judges, district judges, pretty high up, one in new york, one in washington, d. C, coming to completely different conclusions on basically the same issue. Take a look. In his ruling federal judge William Pauley of new york, connected fragmented and fleeting communications. He said the 9 11 attacks might have been prevented if the phone Data Collection system had existed then to help investigators connect the dots before the attacks occurred. He says the governments learned from its mistakes and has adapted to confront a new
Finance minister and five others. Reporter a daring attack in the heart of beiruts posh downtown area. The car baum killed the former finance minister, his bodyguard, and four others. He was a close aide and top advisor to former prime minister, and leading figure in the freedom movement. The explosion took place just a short distance from the residence where he had his office. Security had been very tight here lately, but that was not enough to prevent the attack. Translator we were inside and felt glass breaking and coming in, and then we heard the sound, and then it happened. An explosion continued to break, we waited until it was all broken and then went out and saw this. Translator as you can see all of the shops are damaged. All of this is terrorism. Damaging the people and the country. What more can i say. God help this country. Reporter politicians said they already know who was behind the attack, and they [ technical difficulties ] translator the killer is the same. All of syr